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AfterThoughts About The Missed Trade at Deadline

AfterThoughts about the Missed Trade at Deadline

Personally, I am glad that no trades were made. I have enjoyed watching what this group of guys, who started together and are ending together, are doing right now. This group endured many rough times and still have found a way to show how special they are.*

Bringing in a new player at the trade deadline could have changed the chemistry and we may have never known what got us to the playoffs (if we even would have made it).

Knowing that there will be changes during the off-season, we should all enjoy this team for now and know that we are witnessing something special.

Let's go Pacers....take these two games at home, even up the series and make some more noise!!

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I still wish it has gone through, I think it was a good trade for the pacers and having watched Mayo in the playoffs, yes I wish we had acquired him. In general though trades are about a lot more than just about 6 weeks of the regular season and 1 playoff appearance. A trade is about a longer term than that

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I understand what you are saying....I feel that way, too, kind of. However, this is just so special and I very sentimental! I am just glad that these guys on the team who have not had much to be excited about over the past few years (we can include all of us die hards too!) are experiencing this!

I bet OJ Mayo is still on the radar and he may really want to come here now! There probably are several players who may want to come here after seeing that we are a good, young team and well coached!

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Looking at how close we are to beating the #1 seed, and everyone saying that we need a clutch scorer who can get his own shot, I really wish the trade had gone through. And I hope Mayo is still on the radar for the front office.

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The way McBob has not came to play in these playoffs (I guess he's came to play with his right hand) I wish the trade went through. I wouldn't be upset anymore if we didn't resign him after these performances in the playoffs.

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I have mixed feelings about the trade that didn't happen.

On the one hand, I'm glad it feel through only because I like the active pieces we have. I like the Jmac plays above the rim. The Pacers hadn't had a high-flier in years. It's good to see someone on this team with the ability to throw down the "ally-oop!".

I think Hans and PG are definite keepers! No way do you trade either of these guys.

BRush, Solo, TJ Ford...I wouldn't lose sleep if the Pacers traded any of those three.

Foster & Dunleavy...depends on who we get back. But I'm hopeful both will stay because they make worthwhile contributions to the team in ways most people forget about. Of course, it could be argued that if their performances are so forgetable perhaps it's worth trading them, but sometimes having decent role players who bring about the "intangibles" that don't necessarily show up on a stat sheet are the players you want to keep. Some things you just can't teach.

But on the other hand, having a playmaker like Mayo would have been great!

Overall, I'm okay with them not making a trade. I think if we can keep most of this team together - Granger, Hibbert, Collison, Hans, George, Dahntey (who needs to be more of a factor w/the 2nd Unit next year), Jmac, Price - bring in another Big and a shooter/playmaker AND retain Vogel because I think he was key to turning this thing around, then come next year the Pacers just might make it into the top 5 range of teams in the East.

SAN ANTONIO -- O.J. Mayo is not going to apologize, OK? He's not going to apologize for that 3-pointer he hit at the end of the first quarter the other day.

Yes, it's possible that the clock operator was a tad slow Sunday, that he didn't get the clock started soon enough, and that if he hadn't dithered for a full second Mayo's shot would have been too late.

But if anyone in the game deserved a break, it's Mayo. He probably deserves a dozen more tonight.

"It's unbelievable what he's been through," said Mike Conley.

Maybe the "J" in O.J. stands for Job?

So gather around your TV sets to watch the plucky Grizzlies try to win Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs. The pluckiest may be Mayo, who would make a darn good country song.
He's been benched, he's been punched, he's been suspended and he's been traded. His dad has been arrested and sent to jail.

His dog died and his house flooded and, nah, I just made up those last two. But he got beat up by a teammate and had to read about it on Twitter. How much better is that?

And he lost his starting job to a rookie. And that doesn't count any of the USC stuff.

"If you had tried to imagine all the bad things that you could put in a season, I don't think you could have come up with the season that O.J. has had," said Marc Gasol.

Even the press sessions can be excruciating. Like Wednesday, Mayo was asked to rank his recent humiliations. Or to at least identify which was the absolutely most painful and/or ignominious:

Being told he had to try out for point guard during the summer league and then failing the tryout miserably?

Getting cut from the U.S. National Team?

Losing his job as a starter for the first time since he picked up a basketball?

Getting beaten up by Tony Allen over a gambling debt?

Being suspended by the league for 10 games for using a banned substance?

Learning he'd been traded to Indiana?

Then learning the trade had fallen through?

That's just the basketball stuff, mind you. His father really was arrested and charged with attempted murder in December for allegedly driving into a police officer and dragging him several feet. Mayo is evidently not close with his father, but, c'mon, still.

"I've been through some stuff in this organization as well, but I've never been through nearly what he's been through and I can only imagine what it's like," said Conley. "He would talk to me and say, 'Man, nothing can go right for me right now.' I'm really proud of how he's handled it."

Mayo is often portrayed as a coddled star, mostly because he's been so well known for so long. But can you imagine how other athletes might have reacted to all of this?

The guy shouldn't even be in San Antonio today. The Grizzlies tried their best to trade him to the Pacers for a draft pick and Josh McRoberts. If the same clock operator who had been working Sunday's game had been in charge of the clock at the NBA trade deadline, Mayo would be getting ready for a playoff game against the Bulls.

"It's surprising because you think that your team has traded you -- and everything is good, no hard feelings -- but then you tell me that we missed the deadline by three minutes so we need you to come back to work tomorrow," Mayo said.

At which point, Mayo would have been excused for throwing a tantrum. He took another approach.

"You've got to look in the mirror, wash your face and go to work tomorrow," he said. "You never want to bring controversy in the locker room saying 'This stuff isn't right, they're doing me wrong,' So, you just want to go in and try to be the best man you can be."

And, yes, it's true, Mayo's best wasn't as good as in years past. But do you really blame him? Wile E. Coyote had easier seasons than the one Mayo just endured. Murphy had more good luck.

Indeed, even as Mayo joins his teammates in celebrating the team's first playoff victory, he has to know there's a good chance he'll be traded -- traded again? -- during the coming offseason. The other day, Randolph said he thought a core of Rudy Gay, Conley, Gasol and himself could compete for a championship. He may not have intended to leave Mayo off the list, but it was a telling omission, just the same.

The Grizzlies can't afford to keep all their good young players. Mayo's the one they tried to deal before. It has to be hard, especially for a guy who was always supposed to be the star, to be the guy who's now considered expendable.

Mayo has handled it with remarkable grace and good humor. The support of his teammates plainly helps. Conley and Gasol, in particular, have gone out of their way to bolster his spirits.
"We need him, I need him, we need him as a team," said Gasol. "He's someone who hits big shots."

Mayo certainly hit some in the Game 1 victory. After starting 1-7 from the field, he made 4 of his next 6, including two huge 3-pointers in the fourth.

"Without those shots, it would have been tough for us," said Gasol. "It's going to be tougher and tougher because they're going to take away the paint."

So Mayo will be out there again tonight, doing his best for the franchise. It's an impressive thing to watch, if sometimes bittersweet.

"I'm really happy," he said. "We've worked hard for this. You get a feeling that we're a team on the rise."

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"It's surprising because you think that your team has traded you -- and everything is good, no hard feelings -- but then you tell me that we missed the deadline by three minutes so we need you to come back to work tomorrow," Mayo said.

At which point, Mayo would have been excused for throwing a tantrum. He took another approach.

"You've got to look in the mirror, wash your face and go to work tomorrow," he said. "You never want to bring controversy in the locker room saying 'This stuff isn't right, they're doing me wrong,' So, you just want to go in and try to be the best man you can be."\

This is what I want. I'm sold... if the price is right, let's get this guy.

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This is what I want. I'm sold... if the price is right, let's get this guy.

You should watch some interviews with Mayo. He's pretty well spoken and polite. Pretty surprising compared to how the media portrays him. I think the Pacers are going to get him in the off season since Memphis needs money to sign Gasol and I think he will take off with new scenery.